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2. Rumford fireplace - Wikipedia

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   The Rumford fireplace is a tall, shallow fireplace designed by Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, an Anglo-American physicist best known for his investigations of heat. Its shallow, angled sides are designed to reflect heat into the room, and its streamlined throat minimizes turbulence, thereby carrying away smoke with little loss of heated ...

3. Outdoor fireplace - Wikipedia

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   Outdoor fireplace. An outdoor fireplace is a place for building fires outside of the home. Similar in construction to an indoor fireplace, an outdoor fireplace is usually added to a stone, brick, or concrete patio. It often consists of a firebox and a chimney. The firebox is typically constructed with a smoke shelve incorporated although ...

4. Russian stove - Wikipedia

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   The Russian stove[ 1 ] (Russian: русская печь) is a unique and special universal stove oven in stove masonry craftsmanship that first appeared in the 15th century or earlier. [ 2 ] It is used for different purposes, combining in themselves the best combination of all functionality of other stoves, ovens and fireplaces as well, such ...

5. Wood-burning stove - Wikipedia

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   A wood-burning stove (or wood burner or log burner in the UK) is a heating or cooking appliance capable of burning wood fuel, often called solid fuel, and wood-derived biomass fuel, such as sawdust bricks. Generally the appliance consists of a solid metal (usually cast iron or steel) closed firebox, often lined by fire brick, and one or more ...

6. Rocket stove - Wikipedia

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   A rocket stove is an efficient and hot burning stove using small-diameter wood fuel. [1] Fuel is burned in a simple combustion chamber containing an insulated vertical chimney, which ensures almost complete combustion prior to the flames reaching the cooking surface. Rocket stove designs are most often used for portable stoves for cooking but ...

7. Hearth - Wikipedia

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   Hearth with cooking utensils. A hearth (/ h ɑːr θ /) is the place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a horizontal hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos (a low, partial wall behind a hearth), fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.